Hi, I'm receiving traps when running the tests going with 'gmake check' and on one of the tests it traps on: os/FileJournal.cc:1036 void FileJournal::align_bl(off64_t pos, bufferlist& bl) { // make sure list segments are page aligned if (directio && (!bl.is_aligned(block_size) || !bl.is_n_align_sized(CEPH_MINIMUM_BLOCK_SIZE))) { assert(0 == "bl should be align"); if ((bl.length() & (CEPH_MINIMUM_BLOCK_SIZE - 1)) != 0 || (pos & (CEPH_MINIMUM_BLOCK_SIZE - 1)) != 0) dout(0) << "rebuild_page_aligned failed, " << bl << dendl; assert((bl.length() & (CEPH_MINIMUM_BLOCK_SIZE - 1)) == 0); assert((pos & (CEPH_MINIMUM_BLOCK_SIZE - 1)) == 0); } } And then I get confused with the following commit in other tests: commit 8ed724222651812c2ee8cc3804dc1f54c973897d Author: Kefu Chai <kchai@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 4 01:23:31 2015 +0800 test/bufferlist: do not expect !is_page_aligned() after unaligned rebuild if the size of a bufferlist is page aligned we allocate page aligned memory chunk for it when rebuild() is called. otherwise we just call the plain new() to allocate new memory chunk for holding the continuous buffer. but we should not expect that `new` allocator always returns unaligned memory chunks. instead, it *could* return page aligned memory chunk as long as the allocator feels appropriate. so, the `EXPECT_FALSE(bl.is_page_aligned())` after the `rebuild()` call is removed. Signed-off-by: Kefu Chai <kchai@xxxxxxxxxx> Could these 2 be related, and do I have an alignment problem when allocating buffers and bufferlists.... Note that I also have not solved the illegal writes to _len in bufferlists when running unittest_erasure_code_shec_arguments. So any suggestions as to where to look at for this, are welcome. --WjW -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html